HOW IS THE MONSTER PORTTRAYED IN CHAPTERS 11 TO 16 OF THE FRANKENSTEIN NOVEL?

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FRANKENSTEIN HOW IS THE MONSTER PORTTRAYED IN CHAPTERS 11 TO 16 OF THE FRANKENSTEIN NOVEL? INTRODUCTION Frankenstein is a long novel written by Mary Shelley, a 19 year old girl who created Frankenstein out of her own nightmares. Mary started writing the novel in the 19th century. Mary was born in 1797 and grew up in troubled times. Her life was a peculiar one it was filled with demons and from this life came a terrifying tale which went from generation to generation horrifying adults and children all over the world. The source of the book was Switzerland and this is where Mary was living when she wrote the book. In Switzerland life was lived in an age of rapidly increasing scientific discovery. Biology was the most crucial subject as many lives were being lost and a solution to preventing this was deeply required. With all the discoveries people built up wild imaginations about bringing the dead to life with the complex use of magnetism and electricity. As a child Mary heard of scientists going out of the laws boundaries and trying to bring in-animate substances back to life. Mary had a father who she loved and admired, his name was William Godwin and he was a brilliant philosopher. Mary's mother could not be loved by her because she passed away after Mary's birth due to a great weakness of her body. Her name was Mary Wilson who was a famous feminist. After growing up stressfully and reaching the age of 16 she met up with a young man called Percy Bish Shelley who was aged 21. She got married to him and found that he was a very serious man. After the cheerful marriage Mary remembered her nightmares and all the chronicles and legends she had heard as a child. These memories struck a chord in her imagination and it influenced Mary to write the novel. ...read more.

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These quotations show how the monster came upon the discovery of how fire functioned. The monster observed a small family called the De Lacey family who lived in a small cottage in the woods. From them he learns and applies the language English, he started off by learning the most frequently used words and progressively at high speed widened his vocabulary and improved his punctuality: "I learned and applied the words, fire, milk, bread and wood". In this quotation the monster is saying that he had learned a few words which he could use and therefore he had partially fulfilled his desire of expressing himself. He could use these words to refer to objects. After learning to speak the language the monster became eager to learn more so he acquired a book called 'Volneys Ruins of Empires' and studied it in amazement and astonishment. After studying the book the monster had constructed a fluent vocabulary with complex words. After the monster was abandoned yet again by the De Lacey family his feelings spun frantically out of control and his mind turned to think in a devious way. He wanted revenge on Frankenstein and would stop at nothing until he had satisfied his need for vengeance. These conniving thoughts and feelings lead the monster to his first act of guilt, he had murdered a young boy called William Frankenstein, Victor's young brother. The monster uses cunning intelligence to divert the guilt onto Justine and implicate the murder sentence on her. The monster is also shown as highly intelligent by presenting him as a curious being, he questions about life and its purposes: "Where were my friends and relations?" and: "What was I?" These questions show that the monster has a sophisticated brain and his intelligence is great. All these ingenious thoughts and experiences display the monsters great intelligence. The monster then starts to present himself as a lonely outcast with no friends or relatives of any kind. ...read more.

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In the end the monster portrays himself to be a bitter and destructive beast which was the fact due to the cruel, unjustifiable treatment he received from society and all humans. The monsters personality completely utterly transformed into one which was ignorant and which cause devastation and wreckage. Therefore the tale ended tragically with deaths and a kind and gentle monster transformed into a bitter and destructive beast. The Author of this novel Mary Shelley was initially trying to send out the message to the readers that people can go over the limit with their crazy ambitions and desires. Their ambitions might turn out to be wild and deranged, and that when a person tries to accomplish what god did and tries to play gods' role it is definitely pushing the limit. The example given of this person in this story is a scientist called Victor Frankenstein with his crazy experiment to re-animate life. Mary is also trying to say that people should never be judged by his or her looks, the inside and personality of a person is always concealed behind a locked door and to obtain the key you must give the person a chance and possibility in life. The moral is also that parents should look after their children that they have brought to life or they will run wild and feel useless and lonely, children need love and support to grow into a responsible adult. It is also shown in the story that men are made evil by the treatment they receive from the society and their family. Mary Shelley studied a lot of books by Rossesu and he said that men are born good and their nature is harmless until they have been made evil by society. Mary Shelley lived in a time of rapid scientific progress. The most crucial subject was biology and many discoveries were being made. Perhaps this novel is expressing a fear of science and its powers. ?? ?? ?? ?? English Coursework ...read more.

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Monster display such anger; with his first act of violence being the burning of the De Lacey's cottage, this small surge of violence has quickly escalated into him becoming a killer. After the murder of the young boy the Monster removes a locket from the dead boy's body and plants it on a sleeping girl, Justine.

As the monster prepares to kill himself he also looks back upon the life he has lived and how he has lived it. "You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself." Here the monster is shown as a reformed character for whom the reader can feel pity.

He even went out of his way to travel around the world chasing The Creature - trying to kill it once and for all. However, I believe that if Frankenstein had done this then it would only have made him as bad as The Creature.

This shows us again that the monster is constantly developing, and experiencing a variety of different emotions, such as love. Love is portrayed in 'Frankenstein' after he watches the daily routine of the De Lacey's (through a small gap in the wooden panes, previous to where the window was.

Shelley uses many different methods to grab our attention, make the reader think more into the story and how we would feel if we were in the characters shoes. Shelley uses other characters to evoke sympathy from the readers, such as when the creature finally bucks up the courage to go and meet the blind man, father from the cottage.

determined to go on with his dangerous mission and to create life. Finally Victor Frankenstein succeeds: 'After nights and days of labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of life.' At this point Victor Frankenstein is very excited because after all his hard work he had finally discovered the way to create life.

very repulsive and he feels it is impossible to love such a ' thing ', ' His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing... but these luxuries only formed a more horrid contrast'.

Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.? This part of the poem relates to Frankenstein being so scared of the monster that he does not even look behind him as he knows that the monster is right behind him, ready to attack suddenly.